I just received yet another email hoax. May I ask what benefit there is to making people email 8 (or more) of their friends to receive personal happiness, wealth, good fortune or (in this case) a free laptop? Read more

I’m off to see a concert in Liverpool this July. The gig’s at the Liverpool Empire which is just next to Lime Street train station - ideal I thought. Train there and return home after the concert. Alas it was not to be. Read more

It seems that I inadvertently stirred up a hornet’s nest with my last entry about internet users spamming opponents and their allies.  Read more

I saw a link posted by Alex Hanff this morning on my Facebook page. He’s a very vocal opponent of DPI and has made many comments regarding his opinion of Phorm. Apparently, although I haven’t personally checked, Phorm supporters have been attacking his forum overnight with various posts, some of which he states linked out to pornographic sites, and they also have been sending private messages to forum members.

Whether you support Phorm or not would you feel this behaviour is acceptable? If your supporters (for whatever belief) did this type of activity to one of your detractors would you endorse it? Would you be appalled? Would you be appalled yet secretly be glad our critic is getting what they deserve?

My opinion on this situation is that ‘innocent bystanders’ are being hit by the fallout. I would certainly be upset if a link on a forum I believed was genuine led me to porn sites; I would be even more upset if my children accessed them. By all means, use the internet to voice your opinions but this type of behaviour is just plain childish with potentially serious consequences.

My BB Storm had a sulk earlier and kept getting the reset error 200 message. I ended up having to wipe and reinstall which didn’t make me happy as it was set up just how I liked it. As a plus it seemed to update the firmware.

Anyway, try as I might the darned calendar wouldn’t sync with Outlook. All looked OK in the settings and I just couldn’t figure it out. So off I went to the Crackberry forums in search of a clue if not an actual solution. The first forum I came to seemed to have various solutions that looked pretty involved - until I came to the last entry (it isn’t the last now!). In short, it was a very, very simple solution to my problem and all is OK now.

Quick Fix Solution: Go to Options->Advanced->Default Services and ensure that your calendar is set to the email that is tied to your outlook. If you are like me, I have multiple emails to my BB so once I changed it to the right email, it instantly worked with DM. Hope this helps others as it was very frustrating for me living without the calendar.

The forum link is here…just in case